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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"political preferences"”.
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Latino Evangelicals: How Their Multiple Identity Influences Their Political Preferences
… However, we have a limited understanding of the political needs of the Latino Evangelical who identifies as an ethnic person and a religious person. As the discipline of political science attempts to predict, describe, or explain the political attitudes of Latinos, understanding the political …
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It’s more than just ‘how women think’: explaining the nature and causes of gender gaps in political preferences
Women hold political beliefs that differ systematically from those of men, a phenomenon scholars call “gender gaps.” The collective opinions of women tend to favor social welfare policies and spending on these policies, while women oppose the use of force at home and abroad. Far from being …
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Connection and Resistance: Civilian experiences of violence in conflict zones and their impact on civilians’ political preferences for violent and nonviolent resistance
… connection as mechanisms affecting civilians’ political preferences in response to state-sponsored violence. State use of force policies such as checkpoints, curfews, and limits on communication devices are designed to control militancy and increase safety. However, I argue these policies can …
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Politics and the American clergy: Sincere shepherds or strategic saints?
Scholars have evaluated the causes of clergy political preferences and behavior for decades. As with party ID in the study of mass behavior, personal ideological preferences have been the relevant clergy literature's dominant behavioral predictor. Yet to the extent that clergy operate in bounded …
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Agricultural policy analysis under costly enforcement : an economic analysis of cheating
… income to producers is maximized when the political preferences of policy enforcers and the regulator coincide. The transfer efficiency of output quotas under alternative political preferences of policy enforcers is determined by a trade-off between the resource costs of intervention and …
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Church, Country, Culture: How Three Aspects of Authoritarianism Predict Support for Donald Trump
… bipartisan system, ideologies and beliefs create political views that sort voters between two groups. Political sorting increases polarization based on cultural preferences for an in-group that become ethnocentric views, which develop into ethnocentric cultural politics. I present an augmented …
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How national diversity shapes the future of a genuine common European security and defence policy
… third analysis chapter analyses how the political will and political preferences differ between EU countries by cpaturing the perceptions of key decision-makers and opinion-formers within national assemblies and parliaments in an online survey, both generally with regard to defence and …
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Authoritarianism on Policy Preferences in Canada
… over autonomy, is a popular explanation for political preferences and behaviour but it is misunderstood as existing only on the right; as either an all-powerful or insignificant predictor of policy preferences; and as a predisposition that is activated by threat. Our understanding of it is …
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The Determinants of Voting Behavior in Turkey
… ethnic background plays any role in their political preferences, and (4) whether the socioeconomic indicators have any impact on voters’ preferences. From this analysis, the study shows that the voting behavior in Turkey has evolved towards ethnic -- specifically Turk/Kurd -- and …
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Media Echo Chambers: Selective Exposure and Confirmation Bias in Media Use, and its Consequences for Political Polarization
… to find news and information that support their political beliefs and attitudes, and avoid news and information that challenge those beliefs or attitudes. How does this affect people’s selection of content and political polarization in the long run? This thesis investigates the relationship …
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Information And Voting In Senate Elections
… cast votes that are representative of their own political preferences. Research on such heuristics largely depend on presidential election data however, and it remains uncertain how voters respond to less salient elections where candidate information may not be as apparent and electoral …
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Reinhold Niebuhr and an Ethic of Humility in Deliberative Politics
… is to investigate the degree to which the political psychology of Reinhold Niebuhr contributes to a more capacious theory of deliberative politics and to what degree such a theory may permit individuals to express themselves with more workable forms of democratic practice. Considerations of …
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Finding Meaning In the Sociopolitical Experience of African American Republicans: A Phenomenological Approach
… and ideological factors contributing to political partisanship. To date, most studies related to political identification have drawn from large national databases, using quantitative methods focused on assessing political preferences, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, in order to …
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Falling in Love, or Falling in Line? Trump, Clinton, and Mobilization in the 2016 Election in Florida
… as to whether individuals with opposing political views will likewise express different motivations for mobilizing in campaigns. Other scholars have also theorized the potential differences in strategy employed by movements with divergent aims; this body of work is also inconclusive. In a …
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Migration, Polarization, and Sorting in the American Electorate
… clustering has been linked to contemporary political polarization by jour- nalists and other researchers in recent years, most recently and notably by Bishop and Cushing (2008). In these accounts, clustering is motivated, in part, by shared tastes for combinations of place attributes that …
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U.S. policy of conditioning China's most-favored-nation status on intellectual property protection, 1991-1993
… has also been a function of U.S. domestic political process. With the diversification of China policy objectives and the pluralization of the policymaking process, U.S. strategic interests are frequently weighted and balanced by concerned governmental and societal institutions in the …
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Rus oryantalistlerin hadis ve siyer çalışmaları
… was devoted to government policies and political preferences in both periods. Moreover, translating into Russian the works on the Prophet Mohammad?s sayings and Tradition of some Western orientalists such as Goldziher and contenting with these may have caused the works made on the …
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The Jurisprudence of Thomas M. Cooley: Why One of the Most Important Jurists of the Nineteenth Century Still Matters
… and the common law as adopted in the states, not political preferences or economic ideology. The final chapter demonstrates how some of his views and principles can be applied to retrospective civil legislation cases; the definition of “tax” as reviewed in National Federation of Independent …
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Development of Dispositions and Behaviors in Random and Self -Selected Freshman Roommate Pairs
… similarities in characteristics such as music preferences and social activities after living with one another for a semester, while self-matched roommates showed greater similarities across a greater range of characteristics, including personality traits, religiosity, and political preferences. …
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